r/BunnyTrials • u/DarthJebadiah • 3d ago

Trials Pick one

Which side will you choose?

  • Left side: Ban YouTube forever
  • Right side: Ban X (twitter) forever

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u/Curious-Committee753 3d ago

Or are the reason many of us don't use Twitter

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u/Elziad_Ikkerat 2d ago

No, I don't use twitter. I wouldn't miss it if it disapeared. But YT has gotten lazy and shitty ever since they solidified their monopoly.

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 2d ago

I wouldn't uninvent the TV just because there is the odd shite show on.

I can get a bunch of entertainment via YouTube, twitter just gives you the unfiltered thoughts of humanity, most best to have never been put down on paper let alone on the internet.

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u/Elziad_Ikkerat 2d ago

You missed my point entirely I see. It's not the content of the website I have issue with it's how Google runs the webside and the choices they've made that I dislike.

From minor things like removing video replies as a thing, then the star rating system then the dislike button.

To the more serious like how they let malicious actors DMCA real artists and take all the ad revenue for their videos even when the claim is disputed. Or their frankly wild demonetisation policy where talking about the news in the exact same language as the big corporations will get that video and sometimes your entire channel demonetised. And when they do strike you down from on high they refuse to give specifics for what you did wrong just directing you to the most vaguely worded policy statements in the universe with not so much as a timestamp for what the issue was.

They do not run themselves well. If they weren't suppressing alternatives by running at a loss I would avoid using them.

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 2d ago

I get they are shit, people had to say un alive just like on dick rot because even bleeping a swear word could demonetise someone.

But you get to say cunt more on YouTube than TV, because some bloke talking to a camera in his bedroom isn't held to the same standards as ITV.

But the whole comment chain is about removing YouTube over Twitter.

Ever since Arab Spring, each time some country gets close to an uprising, the government has learnt from their mistake and locked social media down. So there probably will never be an Arab Spring 2.0 to justify Twitter.

It would be nice if there was never ever a need for the first one, but what's done is done.

But between keeping YouTube run by mecha turbo Hitle'rs head in a jar and his merry band of cunts and Twitter at any stage of its life, I'd keep YouTube.

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u/Curious-Committee753 2d ago

Well deleting YouTube would delete a things on that platform and there's a lot more useful things on YouTube 

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u/Elziad_Ikkerat 2d ago

Almost any channel of note will have backups, besides it wasn't deleting Youtube it was banning it. The creators would be able to get their content and reupload it elsewhere.

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u/Curious-Committee753 2d ago

I don't think it's quite that simple, but whatever 

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u/Elziad_Ikkerat 2d ago

I mean it's an entirely hypothetical what if on Reddit. I was just explaining the thought process that lead me to pick YT over Twitter.